{"id":170521,"date":"2025-06-09T15:03:09","date_gmt":"2025-06-09T15:03:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/170521\/"},"modified":"2025-06-09T15:03:09","modified_gmt":"2025-06-09T15:03:09","slug":"wild-birds-daera-possibly-failed-to-comply-with-environmental-law","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/170521\/","title":{"rendered":"Wild birds: Daera &#8216;possibly failed&#8217; to comply with environmental law"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\"><b class=\"ssrcss-1xjjfut-BoldText e5tfeyi3\">The Department of Agriculture, Environment and Rural Affairs (Daera) may have failed to comply with environmental law, according to a new report.<\/b><\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">It is in relation to special protection areas for at-risk wild birds, such as puffins, whooper swans and light-bellied Brent geese.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">An investigation from the Office for Environmental Protection (OEP) had been previously <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/uk-northern-ireland-68595536\" class=\"ssrcss-f6h2dj-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">launched in March 2024<\/a>, following potential failures to implement recommendations given by a conservation body. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Daera said it welcomes the OEP&#8217;s work and will be &#8220;considering the investigation findings&#8221;, whilst recognising &#8220;that there is much more to do to protect our natural environment and the habitats that wild birds and other wildlife need to survive and thrive&#8221;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Department of Agriculture, Environment and Rural Affairs (Daera) may have failed to comply with environmental law, according&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":170522,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3843],"tags":[728,70,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-170521","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-environment","8":"tag-environment","9":"tag-science","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114654020035241479","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/170521","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=170521"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/170521\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/170522"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=170521"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=170521"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=170521"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}